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Against Heresies (Book II)

by: St. Irenaeus of Lyons

Publication date: 2006-07-03

Usage: Public Domain

Topics: Audiobook - Nonfiction, religion

Item Size: 882.4M

Now that Irenaeus has given us a rundown on Gnostic teachers, beliefs, and practices, he moves to suggesting arguments against such beliefs. These arguments also provide an interesting look at theology in Irenaeus' day.

Book I
Book III
Book IV
Book V

Notes

Book II is now complete.

Track numbers continue from the previous part.

Addeddate: 2006-07-04 00:30:57

Boxid: OL100020418

External_metadata_update: 2019-03-27T08:02:29Z

Identifier: VsHeresies2

Taped by: Maureen S. O'Brien

Year: 2006

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11.1M

Chs. 00-01: Preface; Impossibility of Multiple Gods

11.5M

Chs. 02-03: World Not Made by Angels, or Anybody Else But God

20.1M

Chs. 04-06: World Not Made in a Space Left Intentionally Blank, Against God's Will

19.4M

Ch. 07-08: Creation No Image of the Aeons or Shadow of the Pleroma

13.6M

Chs. 09-11: God Created the World. From Nothing.

13.7M

Ch. 12: The Triacontad and the Conjunction System Doesn't Work.

20.0M

Ch. 13: The Aeons' Order of Production Indefensible

16.4M

Ch. 14: Valentinus Copied His System from Previous Greek Poets and Philosophers

10.7M

Chs. 15-16: No Account Given of Productions; and Either the World Was God's Own Idea, or There Must Be an Infinite Cycle of Worlds.

17.6M

Ch. 17: This Whole Aeon Production System Makes God Look Really Ignorant or Evil.

10.6M

Ch. 18: Wisdom Can't Be in Ignorance; Sophia's Thought Can't Have a Separate Existence

14.4M

Ch. 19: Problems with Gnostic Theories about Gnostics' Origins

12.7M

Chs. 20-21: Judas Isn't a Type of Sophia, and the 12 Apostles Don't Represent the 12 Aeons

18.1M

Chs. 22-23: The Thirty Aeons are Not Typified by the Fact that Christ Was Baptized in His Thirtieth Year: He Did Not Suffer in the Twelfth Month After His Baptism; The Woman Who Suffered from an Issue of Blood Was No Type of the Suffering Aeon.

23.3M

Chs. 24-25: Folly of the Arguments Derived by the Heretics from Numbers, Letters, and Syllables; God is Not to Be Sought After by Means of Letters, Syllables, and Numbers; Necessity of Humility in Such Investigations.

31.0M

Chs. 26-28: Knowledge Puffeth Up, But Love Edifieth.

25.5M

Chs. 29-30: Refutation of the Views of the Heretics as to the Future Destiny of the Soul and Body. Absurdity of Their Styling Themselves Spiritual, While the Demiurge is Declared to Be Animal.

16.5M

Chs. 31-32: Recapitulation and Application of the Foregoing Arguments; Further Exposure of the Wicked and Blasphemous Doctrines of the Heretics.

20.0M

Chs. 33-35: Absurdity of the Doctrine of the Transmigration of Souls; Souls Can Be Recognised in the Separate State, and are Immortal Although They Once Had a Beginning; Refutation of Basilides, and of the Opinion that the Prophets Uttered Their Predictions Under the Inspiration of Different Gods.

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5.5M

Chs. 00-01: Preface; Impossibility of Multiple Gods

5.7M

Chs. 02-03: World Not Made by Angels, or Anybody Else But God

10.1M

Chs. 04-06: World Not Made in a Space Left Intentionally Blank, Against God's Will

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Ch. 07-08: Creation No Image of the Aeons or Shadow of the Pleroma

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Chs. 09-11: God Created the World. From Nothing.

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Ch. 12: The Triacontad and the Conjunction System Doesn't Work.

10.0M

Ch. 13: The Aeons' Order of Production Indefensible

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Ch. 14: Valentinus Copied His System from Previous Greek Poets and Philosophers

5.4M

Chs. 15-16: No Account Given of Productions; and Either the World Was God's Own Idea, or There Must Be an Infinite Cycle of Worlds.

8.8M

Ch. 17: This Whole Aeon Production System Makes God Look Really Ignorant or Evil.

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Ch. 18: Wisdom Can't Be in Ignorance; Sophia's Thought Can't Have a Separate Existence

7.2M

Ch. 19: Problems with Gnostic Theories about Gnostics' Origins

6.4M

Chs. 20-21: Judas Isn't a Type of Sophia, and the 12 Apostles Don't Represent the 12 Aeons

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Chs. 22-23: The Thirty Aeons are Not Typified by the Fact that Christ Was Baptized in His Thirtieth Year: He Did Not Suffer in the Twelfth Month After His Baptism; The Woman Who Suffered from an Issue of Blood Was No Type of the Suffering Aeon.

11.7M

Chs. 24-25: Folly of the Arguments Derived by the Heretics from Numbers, Letters, and Syllables; God is Not to Be Sought After by Means of Letters, Syllables, and Numbers; Necessity of Humility in Such Investigations.

15.5M

Chs. 26-28: Knowledge Puffeth Up, But Love Edifieth.\' Proper Mode of Interpreting Parables and Obscure Passages of Scripture. Perfect Knowledge Cannot Be Attained in the Present Life: Many Questions Must Be Submissively Left in the Hands of God.

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Chs. 29-30: Refutation of the Views of the Heretics as to the Future Destiny of the Soul and Body. Absurdity of Their Styling Themselves Spiritual, While the Demiurge is Declared to Be Animal.

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Chs. 31-32: Recapitulation and Application of the Foregoing Arguments; Further Exposure of the Wicked and Blasphemous Doctrines of the Heretics.

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Chs. 33-35: Absurdity of the Doctrine of the Transmigration of Souls; Souls Can Be Recognised in the Separate State, and are Immortal Although They Once Had a Beginning; Refutation of Basilides, and of the Opinion that the Prophets Uttered Their Predictions Under the Inspiration of Different Gods.

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